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    these tiny brain robots sound pretty fucking scary to anyone else? "Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through... more

    Reviewed by milzika Feb 18 2008, 02:07am ( 9 reviews ) bbc.co.uk

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  • Rated by niceoldlady on Feb 18 2008, 9:30pm

    Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
  • Rated by milzika on Feb 18 2008, 2:07am

    these tiny brain robots sound pretty fucking scary to anyone else? "Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health. "
  • Rated by cdrees on Feb 17 2008, 9:40pm

    BBC News article on artificial intelligence to match man by 2029
  • Rated by blueglow on Feb 17 2008, 6:46pm

    Most of these ideas are sensible and blindingly obvious, but some of the priorities for their 14 technical challenges are way, waaaay off... They chose "Enhance virtual reality" over, for example, solving the population/food/water crisis or "living on a planet without making 200 species extinct every day"? This is mainly a celebrity pop-science wank-fest.
  • Rated by shell0724 on Feb 17 2008, 11:59am

    reveals the antichrist in reality with the future plans to implant robotic cells in our brains... a world of zombies.
  • Rated by watermelon6 on Feb 17 2008, 11:49am

    this particular story eludes to something "Kramer" suggested would exist in the year two thousand.
  • Rated by TheDeadBeat on Feb 16 2008, 6:29pm

    Holy crap this is so weird.I stumbled upon and read about singularity a couple weeks ago, deciding to read GEB, and now that I've started reading, I'm noticing all this interconnected information.Not to present myself as a "futurist", but if and once this is realized, the immediate possibilities and implications are endless
  • Rated by TalSiach on Feb 16 2008, 1:51pm

    Machines 'to match man by 2029'